PSY 245 Lecture 28: Psy 245 - Lecture 28
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Briefer and focuses directly on changing problem behavior. Includes a number of specific techniques, such as aversion therapy, covert sensitization, and social skills training, to help eliminate paraphiliac behaviors and strengthen appropriate sexual behaviors. In many cases a combination of methods is used. The goal of aversion therapy is to induce a negative emotional response to paraphiliac stimuli or fantasies. Ssris are often helpful in treating obsessive compulsive disorder, a psychological disorder characterized by recurrent obsessions and compulsions. People with paraphilias often experience obsessive thoughts or image of the paraphilic object or stimulus and many also feel compelled to repeatedly carry out the paraphilic acts. Antiandrogen drugs reduce levels of testosterone in the bloodstream. Antiandrogens do not completely eliminate paraphiliac urges, nor do they change the types of erotic stimuli which the man is attracted. Forced sexual intercourse with a nonconsenting person. Note that the legal definition of rape varies from state to state.
